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...welfare is a safety net, not a hammock. The growing welfare class (which, contrary to some characterizations, is composed of both Blacks and whites) is bereft of the work ethic that our country was built on. There is no dignity to working for a living, and hence there is no humiliation involved in living off the handouts of the state, or of passers-by who drop a few coins into a styrofoam cup. Not only is there no economic incentive to getting off welfare; there is no longer a moral or ethical one, either...
...close were the Presleys that the singer may never have recovered from the death of his mother Gladys, who died of liver problems in 1958, just after Presley had gone into the service. Presley was more than bereft; he was cleaved. The open coffin finally had to be covered with glass because he still wanted to kiss and hug his mother, pleading with her to come back. It was a different Presley who went back to the Army, and then to serve in Germany. He seemed to be haunted ever after by her, as we, still and likely always, will...
...late 18th century splendor, is wellknown. A young medical student succeeds in bringing to life a body he has created from a collection of corpses. This new Adam, hungry for guidance from his creator, faces only Frankenstein's revulsion, and seeks revenge on his "father's" loved ones. Bereft of everything except a desire to destory his terrible creation, the scientist chases the monster over the earth to their common doom...
...what of those who are bereft of desire? What of those who feel as Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 does when he says, "I think the other things I do are more important." If a service requirement is instituted, the natural market force of supply and demand for guts will rear its head yet again, as in this possible excerpt from the 1998-99 Confidential Guide about offerings in the new Community Service Core Program...
...perplexity -- a thoughtful "Huh?" And then, in the subtlest shift, comic exasperation plummets into agony. Hanks justified his Philadelphia Oscar in one early scene outside Denzel Washington's law office. With no more than a long, longing look, he registers the despair of a dying man who feels utterly bereft, unheard, dismissed. This lovely little revelation has an antecedent in Big, when the overgrown kid sits alone in a creepy hotel room and ponders his dreadful solitude. He's wonderful at portraying someone who's just been sucker-punched by fate...